ESUG Academic Track
                        6-10 september 2004
                        Köthen, Germany
                        http://www.esug.org

The European Smalltalk User Group is proud to announce that it will 
organize an academic track
for the 12th year of existence of the ESUG Conference with an excellent 
program committee.

Scope:
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The goal of the academic track is to have a forum for publications
related to Smalltalk and dynamically-typed languages. We encourage
authors to submit excellent quality papers as we plan to produce 
proceedings.
The organizing committee strongly discourages the submission of product
presentations and other marketing related material. The academic track 
is about research!

A non exhaustive list of topics is   
    - new languages features (mixins, AOP,...)
    - meta and reflective programming
    - code analysis (refactoring,...)
    - process development (Agile processes, Unit testing, ...)
    - virtual machines (optimization, new trends, ...)
    - frameworks (web, graphical...)
    - software evolution (metrics,...)

The best papers will be published in a special issue of the Elsevier 
international journal "Computer Languages"  
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/complang

Program Chair:
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    Dr. Noury  Bouraqadi (Ecole des Mines de Douai, France)
    email: bouraqadi at ensm-douai.fr
    Prof. Stephane Ducasse (University of Berne)
    email: ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
    Prof. Roel Wuyts (University of Berne)
    email: Roel.Wuyts at ulb.ac.be

Program Committee:
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    - Prof. Andrew Black (Oregon Health and Science University, USA)
    - Dr. Gilad Bracha (SUN, USA)
    - Dr. Noury  Bouraqadi (Ecole des Mines de Douai, France)
    - Prof. Serge Demeyer (University of Antwerpen, Belgium)
    - Prof. Theo D'Hondt (Universiteit Vrije Brussels, Belgium)
    - Prof. Christophe Dony (University of Montpellier, France)
    - Prof. Stephane Ducasse (University of Berne, Switzerland)
    - Dr. Robert Hirschfeld (Gomoco, Germany)
    - Prof. Ralph Johnson (University of Urbana Champain, USA)
    - Prof. M. Marchesi (University of
    - Prof. Kim Mens (University of Louvain la Neuve, Belgium)
    - Dr. Serge Stinckwich (University of Caen, France)
    - Prof. Dave Thomas (Bedarra, USA-Canada)
    - Prof. Roel Wuyts (University of Brussels, Belgium)


Important Dates:
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    - Deadline: 21 of May 2004
    - Notification of acceptance: 1st of July 2004
    - Final version: 21st of July 2004

Format information:
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    http://www.esug.org/summerschools/2003_Bled/elsevier.sit
    http://www.esug.org/summerschools/2003_Bled/elsevier.zip
    Preferred format: PDF
    Maximum paper length 15 pages

How to submit a paper:
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    send your paper in pdf format to Noury Bouraqadi 
<bouraqadi at ensm-douai.fr>, Roel Wuyts <wuyts at iam.unibe.ch>, and Stephane 
Ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch>